AFP Blog

AUGUST 23, 2011

Skype's Acquisition of GroupMe Gives Microsoft A Social Life | Fast Company : The reaction to Skype's proposed acquisition of the New York City-based group messaging service GroupMe for $85 million has been nearly universal: Good for Skype. Google has made Circles central to its social efforts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The down side is the potential for technology glitches and, of course, not being in the room to catch the audience vibe. We got around those challenges quite well. Avoiding Technology and Presentation Fail. In the past, I have presented remotely using skype audio and video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2012

The government blocks certain sites, including access to any group organizing features on social sites (shared photo pools for example), skype out, and tools like VPNs that can help you get around government censors. Eventually, I was able to install a VPN and get to the sites I wanted to use.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

Technology has enabled rapid adoption of telework (also called telecommuting) since the turn of the century. In this series of blog posts, TechSoup staff will share our telework experience. I mainly used TechSoup donor products: the Skype chat application; and ReadyTalk audio, web, and video conferencing services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

That’s why I invited Robin Good to skype into my session. Last week, in preparation for this talk, I had a skype call with Robin Good , one of the best content curators on the planet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

I'm researching for a screencast that I will shoot over the next few weeks on the topic of widgets that can be used for your blog to enable conversation or support nonprofit programs. I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features: Integrating calendar or events info on your blog. Live chat on your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. I had a lot of fun with my keynote.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Satellite Internet gets the boot October 31, 2007 Finally, I have real broadband. I can Skype again (once I figure out how to use my USB headset on Linux.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

The platform war between Facebook and Google + officially launched with a press conference at Facebook announcing the new “awesome&# features including one click skype/Facebook integration for video chat. What a day! I watched live stream on Facebook and the real time snarky reactions coming across Google +. What a day!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

We had a few Skype conversations about this week. She's also just started a blog called the " A Spot " with colleague Matthew DeGroot. Once they built up a set of resources and developed a common set of demands they would enlist the citizen journalism community to blog about the issue. for NGOs there.

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Forj

MAY 18, 2021

These products include Skype, Google Hangouts, and FaceTime. These specialists are there to guide users through creating accounts, setting up jobs and interviews, and ensuring nobody is overwhelmed with the technology. Video Conference vs. Video Interview. They are used on both computers and mobile devices. Drop a line, anytime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

(Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. David Saski from Global Voices summarized her presentation: Dee Dee's 10 minute introduction to why she blogs and what she got out of it put a big smile on my face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. It was the first book I read on blogging. The video blogging community also donated some video cameras for the school too.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. This session introduces the concepts and tools behind the next generation of internet technologies or what has been dubbed "Web.20" David and I had our first skype call to begin to design the session. Our session is: Demystifying Web 2.0

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Skype - Skype's video conferencing abilities are a great way to have free long distance or international phone calls to family or friends. AARP Community - The brand new AARP community tool allows users to share photos, publish a blog, join groups, subscribe to e-newsletters and network with other members.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

E-learning is using internet technology and your networks to learn in real-time – either as an individual, within your organization, or a network and learning is applied to get results. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic. .” Increase Knowledge Capture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Read Sector Blogs That Cover Data: If you want to stay current on data in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, the best place to go is Lucy Bernholz’s Philanthropy 2173 Blog. .” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2011

They also have a great nonprofit technology and marketing blog called Frogloop. I'm something of a collector of best of nonprofit technology lists, especially ones about cloud computing. That's where I found their list of Best Cloud Tools for Your Nonprofit by Avi Kaplan. Collaboration and Messaging Recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

On November 24th, I got up at 5:00 AM to skype into the NCVO Information Conference , focused on how organizations can make best use of recent developments in social media to meet the changing needs and expectations of their audiences. (tags: km laurawhitehead ). As a geekily recursive replay of our " who is video blogging whom ?",

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The agenda was packed, with 30 more plenary sessions per day (highlights here ) ranging from 5 minutes solo presentations, 10-20 minute panel discussions, and live interviews via skype. But the speakers were not just technologists, they included global leaders – many who are used to a different format for conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Read Sector Blogs That Cover Data: If you want to stay current on data in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, the best place to go is Lucy Bernholz’s Philanthropy 2173 Blog. Start with this this post about Data as a buzz word , subscribe to Lucy’s blog, and read ” Navigating the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies. Technology is creating new mechanisms that are enabling us to trust unknown people, companies and ideas. Marcelo talked about how humor can capture attention.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Citizen journalism. Google Maps. Podcasting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

To lessen the likelihood of squabbles, source each best practice with examples and links to nonprofit technology resources that back up your enforcement of the selected best practices. For 10 chapters or less, use Skype Premium. It will help melt resistance. Step 4: Offer training through webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2006

Last week while I busy trying to shoot a scene for an upcoming screencast, I forgot to turn off my SKYPE. She wasn't interested in catching up, rather she was testing a Skype set up for a co-worker. She also offered to help me test my video camera hook-up to Skype. Listen to her podcast over at InterAction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Twitter and Facebook, but with Skype Out, Email Rules A few nptech bloggers are experimenting with Twitter and seeing some of the benefits. Carie is a recognized nonprofit and social networking guru who was written up in the Chronicle of Philathantropy Blog for her organization's efforts on MySpace in June. million users. and Katya A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

This is a group of women who have been working/playing together to explore how technology can support the World Cafe global community. Two years ago when this group was meeting in California, Nancy White saw me online and skyped me. As I returned to the skype call, I got to hear Juanita's voice for the first time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2007

I posted this to my flickr stream and had a blog post in draft when I had intended to hit publish. Although I think it would still be easy to end up with a technology driven project, this goes a long way toward helping an organization tie their ICT to their program objectives. I did all the interviews via skype.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. also blogs for the Huffington Post. technology behind these things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’m sharing it on my blog! And even when you are meeting on Skype or a conference call, the basics of good meetings apply. Use Available Technology to Its Fullest, but Be Prepared for Problems. You can read her blog at www.bethkanter.org or reach her at beth@bethkanter.org. Good meetings don’t just happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Reading Jon Udell's blog and discovered that today is the third anniversary of the term screencast! ve also used Jing to create screencasts on the fly, in demand technical support help to people, including my dad on using skype ). Here's a screencast to mark the date. Update: Jon wrote a response here.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

They'll cover everything social media, including writing to improve your site traffic, blogging, and the newest tools out there. September 28-29 in London, UK : The Lasa European Not-For Profit Technology Conference will be discussing the topic "Will the Cloud Save the Sector?"

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2008

Our conversation focused on Facebook, Second Life, and Skype. As for Skype, the e-bay owned internet phone service: " There is basically no security employed by Skype. And a sizable crew of these young folks are deployed to monitor - and participate in on behalf of the agency - all sorts of social media activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The implementation team was in the conference room in San Francisco for the first time, plus we had in-country leaders on Skype and phone.

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